Friday, December 03, 2010

20 million registered vehicles in Malaysia

Unbelievable. The Audi Q5 ... There's a one-year queue for this baby in Malaysia

Despite extortionate prices, unreasonably high import taxes, killer duties, and after all that talk about how unattractive the national cars are, and that the used car market sucks, and APs are making a few rich at the expense of the masses, and all that whining and bitching .... WE will have more than 20 million registered vehicles by the end of this year.

2009 alone, more than ONE MILLION new vehicles were registered in Malaysia!

It only means one thing. We are all jointly and severally stupid. Stupid because, knowing when we buy a new car we are supporting the cronistic plunder and rape of the buyer by getting him to pay AN individual a huge sum for the AP just because he is Malay and he has got better ties than you, and yet we buy a new car. Even more stupid is that, when this policy that gave rise to certain individuals of a certain racial group benefiting from this policy, the majority from that same community which rightfully should have that same right as that lucky individual but do not, quietly pays to that lucky individual every time they buy a new car that same huge sum. What is most confounding is when they know how to claim and benefit from the "discounts" when buying property, (which I think is more rightly subsidies paid by one group of buyers to another,) why they don't refuse to pay this AP or even ask for a discount. After all hasn't this particular buyer provided the justification for the very existence for this part of the cost of the car?

Well, I for one have somewhat frustrated these cronies. I refuse to buy a new car.

We have 20 million vehicles because of our abysmal public transport. The high car prices lead most of us into taking larger loans and being perpetually in debt. The Audi buyers are a fraction of a fraction in our country. Don't you know that ? High car prices doesn't affect the businessmen and rent-seekers. Consider the average guy earning 2,500 ringgit and paying 700 ringgit to service his loan for an over-priced car. We are paying too much for our cars. Duh !

Nope! I'm 30 years old and I still don't know how to drive a car. I still feel that I cannot afford to own a car. So I rely heavily on our unreliable public transport, which makes me feel extremely miserable.

I have been in KL for 3 years and I think you do need a car to get around.

Your country's transportation can be further improve. I mean I always wonder why your country build the monorail to Brickfields but missed out a couple of kilometers to KL Sentral. It is mind baffling. It is the same with the Dang Wangi LRT station and the Bukit Nanas monorail station. Don't you guys sit down, discuss and plan before embarking on such big projects? Isn't the commuters' convenience built in mind?

Cheap? That is not the point.We shouldn't be paying too much. Income / Money saved from cheap cars can be invested elsewhere .And when cars are dead cheap, no more old / non-roadworthy cars on the road. Recycling industri can then flourished. Why pay so much, as costly as a house but depreciates ?

Before I forget, the Company Owner(s) supplying the sticky cumbersome road tax stickers must be grinning from ear to ear too. How much they charge JPJ for the sticker say RM"x" multiply 20,000,000...wow mesti banyak untung woh!

Ask Bro Anwar Bin Ibrahim to explain the economics of car trade and industry in Malaysia. He's offered a political explanation of it. But like what Dr.M use to say about this beloved Malaysian Brother, he has explantion form almost everything. Can we ask him his real achievement when he was a miniters and DPM. The Saiful-like achievements, that one ah...everyone knows oledi. His daughter oledi said Papa Hebat! But inside actually she's singing the other song Papa Jahat!

It has nothing to do with cheap cars. Many people hang on to cars which have only scrap value simply because it is the only form of transport they have which can carry their whole family. This is especially true in rural areas where the Mat with 6 kids have no choice but to hang on to his piece of shit 4 wheeler because the public transport is woefully in adequate in most parts of Malaysia.

Rocky,Talking about car prices make me sick! We are basically subsidizing Proton and Produa. Our government cut petrol,sugar and other subsidy but we, car user, subsidize national car makers. What a great country and government.!! Business people can use luxury cars, people like us would like very much to drive BMW or Mercedes but unfortunately we can't afford brother!SalamMdrose

The fact of the matter is that the public transport infrastructure in Malaysia sucks! Big time!

If there is an efficient, reliable and ubiquitous multi-modal public transport network in place in our major cities and urban areas, less people would have to drive in order to get to work, send their kids to school, run errands or simply makan angin!

Why the Malaysian authorities took so long to understand this basic fact is a commentary on the way vested interests truimph over the common good!

Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world to own and maintain a car. Yet every major new car launch in the region starts in Singapore first. Like this weekend, Audi is launching the new A8 in Singapore at an estimated cost of S$10 million, with Kevin Spacey gracing the occasion!

Not all are cars. A lot of that are motorcycles. Plus if the government is going to keep on building roads (Malaysia's kilometre of road per capita is I think the highest in Southeast Asia) then people should have a lot of vehicles. Plus public transport sucks and that deprives people of a proper alternative.

cars are not cheap...please siree - you cant get crap for RM 30K - and an avarage graduate starts life of at RM 18K per year - of which at least 30% will go off in rentals, 20% on transportion, 25% on food, 11% on EPF and 6% on communications and basically nothing left for savings - and this too if one practices a damn healthy lifestyle of not smoking/drinking.

try taking the crappy bus service that we have or the damn LRT which is packed like sardines.

so a lot of us are forced to sacrifice a better life and buy a damn car

on the other hand the bloody rich just buy cars like there is no tomorrow.

Roc,You wanna know the truth , alot of rich dukes never pay their taxes, simple as that.It beats me with people driving half a million dollars vehicles.Income tax dept. has BEEN SLEEPING ALL ALONG.Try doing that to the Internal Revenue of USA.This is where Malaysia boleh!Heard from a Nasi Kandar owner money can kow teem everything and you know how much this nasi sellers earn!

most of the commenters sucks big time. always yelling and bitching that the govt. is stupid and you don't have enough to buy luxury things; while you go on sitting on you butt. the question is how much have you done to improve your own live instead of whining and blaming others for your apathy.Surely you can say that you'd given your best but only you know whether your best effort is only skin deep.

Well, from what I see, average malaysian household has 2 cars. Go to any of the housing area you will see that the the road side is full of resident 2nd car. Most of the new condos also offer 2 parking lot.

No wander with 28 millions of population we have 20 million registered car.

An ordinary person like me owning ONE car is not the same as THAT "not ordinary person" owning a fleet of 10cars OR MORE..

I have to pay full cost for purchase, usage, petrol, road tax/insurance and maintainance, in short, everything. Xcdents, insurance kelentong sum more, squeeze whatever they can from the wreck..

The owner of the fleet of 10cars or more cars, some need not pay a single sen (additional perks sum more, with 24hr driver). So whatever new comes out, they will snap, excpt of cos the Armoured vehicles, they will sapu..

So it is this "not ordinary" persons thats making the figures grow BIG.

It was not the MCA Transport Minister who came up with the idea of APs or the need to protect/coddle Proton! Or who sat idle while major car manufacturers invested billions of dollars setting up factories in Thailand!

Rather blame it on protectionism run amok!

Meanwhile, rumour has it that there is at least 1 Bugatti Veyron supercar registered in Malaysia - a car estimated to cost less than RM5 million. Any prize for guessing where this particular "baby" has it's residence? Obviously the owner has no need to take public transport!

1 million vehicles sold in 2009? that figure must have included all the the bikes & ap cars sold by grey importers. 20 million tu since the 1st car register kat malaysia which was more than 50years ago. Pandai betul depa nak spin... the actual motorcar sales http://www.maa.org.my/info_summary.htm

Majority of Malaysian are materialistic lot. Car reflect ones affordability and success. Most of them show off. U should see the number of MPV(alphards) being driven by anties. They can even park those things yet they drive it.All this in full view when i was having my nice cig on a balcony of my apartment. Should have recorded it and tube it online.

Wow , Malaysian always hit the record for this kind of stuff , longest "yau cha kui", biggest dodol and widest chapati also 250 couple married and gather in a function and get RM1000 aid also a record.. So we should be the top ten most corrupted government in the world ..One day we will be the largest wanker population ih the world

Poodah! So, one measly South African is thinking of leaving Singapore?

Why not mention the fact that very sizeable numbers of Chinese, Indians, Indonesians and Malaysians (plus Americans, Australians and Russians) who have bought residential property in Singapore?

Or the fact that luxury cars are selling better than "bread-and-butter" cars in Singapore?

Or the report that the Singapore govt is planning the implementation of Euro V fuel standards by 2012, when Malaysia is still meandering along with Euro II fuel standards?

The car scrapping policy, electronic road pricing and non-subsidised petrol and diesel fuel prices mean that Singapore motorists are cognisant of the real costs of owning a motor vehicle. Unlike, say, Malaysia, where an elaborate system of fuel subsidies has meant coddled consumers who cry blue murder at any attempt to reform a bloated system!

There was a dinner in the Chairman Tan Sri's house in Taman Bukit Pantai, Kuala Lumpur where the guest are the MD of PwC iaitu Mr Chin Kwai Fatt and satu lagi Executive Director for PwC Mr Manohar Benjamin Johnson.

After dinner there is a plan and menurut plan Mr Manohar Benjamin Johnson becomes the No 2 at the Audit Oversight Board on the 1st of April.

Emigration-An ironic phenomenon. Authoritarian rule may have quickened Singapore's economic growth as we're told, but it also contributes to a flight of local talent. A BAFFLING aspect of affluent Singapore, with all its economic finery, is the large – and growing – exodus of its citizens over the past 10 years.

While the hot economy has attracted more than a million foreigners to its shores, its own citizens have been leaving in record numbers to settle down abroad.

In fact, one survey has placed Singapore’s outflow at 26.11 migrants per 1,000 citizens – the second highest in the world. Only Timor Leste (51.07) fares worse.

It has exceeded 1,000 a month to reach 12,707 last year from 4,996 in 1998, or a rise of 170% over 10 years, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng.

In 10 years, they totalled 97,990 Singaporeans (a far greater number if children were included).

The government says about 140,000 Singaporeans are studying, working or in business in foreign countries, which by itself is not a bad thing, given Singapore’s global ambitions. The trouble is many of them may not return.

Even if 0.5% of its brightest minds were to leave, it would hit Singapore hard, said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.

I am a true blue Singaporean. On behalf of my brethren, I would like to say that it is good for our shopping power if Malaysia does not become too expensive. We like M'sia as it is. No need laa to be like Singapore, to challenge challenge. After M'sia becomes so expensive lehhh for us.......Aiyah simple folks like us how to survive?

And what gives you the right to talk on our behalf? You are a sickening fella. We don't need you to be our parrot master!

Btw, FT Malaysians in Singapore (and most FTs) are just opportunists. Most want to have the cake and eat it too. Work in Singapore, get PR then 'balik kampong' to Malaysia or Timbaktoo and become rich due to the high exchange rate of Sin dollars against the M'sian ringgit/alien rupee...or work in Singapore, after having PR, get a HDB flat, then rent it out and buy a bungalow or land in JB by using the rental money....commute everyday via the Causeway to Singapore to work. Why? so cheap maa Malaysia..Singapore too expensive leh....

So, again why are you sprouting shit whenever you open your stinking mouth??....!

/// In fact, one survey has placed Singapore’s outflow at 26.11 migrants per 1,000 citizens – the second highest in the world. Only Timor Leste (51.07) fares worse. ///

That is only one side of the equation. Singapore's inflow is also one of the highest in the world. The net migration (immigration minus emigration) is among the highest in the world. As it is, non-citizens now account for more than one third of the population.

Special dedication to sillywolf twin to skewedmoron … oh and also the second cousin ‘the’ (pronounced as DUHH who suffers from a lack of identity)

The PAP and the people – A Great Affective Divide - Catherine Lim

From the start, they decided that there was only one way to do it: establish the primacy of economic development and link it with political security to form a tight, incontrovertible equation of national survival, so that whatever fitted into the equation would be rigorously promoted and whatever threatened to disrupt it would be slapped down ruthlessly.

Thus a linguistic and cultural issue --that of the English language - was resolved in its favour on the economic grounds that its adoption and use as the main language would enable the country to plug into world trade and technology. The dissenting voices of the Chinese educated were seen accordingly as subversive of the well-being of the country, and duly dealt with.

The absence of this affective dimension in the PAP framework is what has alienated the people from their leaders. It is easily seen that the main criticisms levelled against the PAP point to a style deficient in human sensitivity and feeling -- "dictatorial", "arrogant", "impatient", "unforgiving", "vindictive".

Our Prime Minister gets a monthly salary of only RM22,826.65, his deputy RM18,168.15 while the Cabinet ministers are paid RM14,907.20, according to the Members of Parliament (Emolument) (Amendment) Act 2005 which came into effect on Jan 1, 2004.

The monthly salary of a political secretary effective from Jan 1, 2004 was RM5,709.99 ( here).

So, critics and allegations that the PM receives more than RM50,000 a month is baseless. And those who all the while look up at Singapore as the most 'graft-free' nation, again they are wrong. Perhaps, Singapore is the country with the highest record of cronyism and nepotism.

Singapore Prime Minister's Salary $US2.47 million, or about six times more than the U.S. President, who currently takes home US$400,000. The monthly pay for a Singapore Member of Parliament (who does virtually nothing) is S$12,000 (US$8,600 ) per month or S$144,000 (US$103,200 ) per year and tax free.

A website about The Greed of Singapore's Rulers also reveals how the Prime Minister, his wife, his brothers, his father, his friends and 'culai' holding senior positions at leading conglomerates. The MPs too are given equal special 'seats' as board of directors in the government's most privileged companies.

Note: At age 55, Singapore Ministers collect both a salary and their full pension.

YOU are an Indonesian businessman. You've bribed a state bank official to give you a $US200 million ($A265 million) loan without sufficient collateral, or a risk assessment, for a business venture you know won't get off the ground.

The authorities have found out and you're facing arrest. You need somewhere to go where authorities can't touch you. So where do you go? The answer is Singapore. Why? Because it is a half-hour flight from Jakarta, or 45 minutes by ferry from the Indonesian island of Batam, and, most importantly, it does not have an extradition treaty with Indonesia.

It is largely ethnically Chinese, just like many of Indonesia's white-collar criminals, if only because Indonesians of Chinese ancestry dominate that country's business sector.

Didnt hv the luxury to read all the comments but if it was already commented, I apologize...Cars in Msia is not cheap. ANYTHING IN MALAYSIA IS NOT CHEAP

BUT WHY THERE ARE STILL SO MANY VEHICLES registered on the road? U tell me la...

How is the state of our public transport? Do we consider our public transportation efficient and effective? How about our cabs on the other hand?? Our cabs are all waiting to slaughter their customers.. Siapa nak duk??

Wage earners who have familes takkan nak duk motorcycle bawah 5 orang sekali? Our so called cheapest car also made of tin kosong and that also we are paying thru our noses.. How is that call cheap???????????

- Singapore has been rated as one of the top corruption-free economies in the world by Transparency International and Perc (whose methodologies have not been challenged).- international investors have sunk billions of dollars into Singapore, far more than Malaysia (see UNCTAD statistics and US Government figures).- the big international banks have their regional HQs and regional back office support functions in Singapore.- in spite of their "astronomical" salaries, Singapore govt officials have managed to engineer an economy with one of the strongest currencies in the world, a corporate tax rate of 17 per cent and a top personal income tax rate of 20 per cent. Would you care to 1quote the comparitive figures for Malaysia?- Singapore and Indonesia negotiated a "package deal" comprising an extradition treaty and a defence cooperation agreement. It is the Indonesian Parliament that has held up the ratification of the deal by insisting, against the wishes of the government, that the two be discussed and ratified separately.- there are no fuel subsidies in Singapore (compare pump prices for petrol and diesel in Singapore and Malaysia); motorists don't get a free ride from the Singapore government.- there are no privately-owned and operated "toll" highways and expressways in Singapore; the government funds the construction, operation and maintenance of the country's roads and expressways, as it should be.- as for the alleged Indonesian "fugitives" in Singapore, the Indonesian authorities have shown little interest in pursuing them or even suing them in the Singapore courts for fraud, corruption and embezzlement. Why, I wonder? Surely it's not for lack of evidence, is it?- and far more people are queueing up to live and work in Singapore than there are Singaporeans legging it for "greener" pastures overseas (Singapore Immigration statistics).

You see, dumpkopf, that your asinine rhetoric cuts no ice with sophisticated international investors, MNCs or globally competitive talent.

As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And Singapore has succeeded in cooking up a pretty tasty pudding (check out Morton's at the Mandarin Oriental in Singapore, but, alas, it's not halal!!!).

"Assuming that the American cables exposed by WikiLeaks are true and reports worldwide suggest they are genuine, it suggests that Singapore has a condescending view of Malaysia, and is so scornful that they are willing to tell their Western allies that Malaysia is a sinkhole of racial conflict.

This disdain may, however, be tactical: Singapore is competing heatedly for investments and funds for projects, bourses and futures with practically everybody in the region that any one-upmanship low-rent ploy will do to get a leg up. Such derision could be understood and perhaps anticipated."